Prop firm guides
Everything it takes to start a prop firm, in the order it matters.
Most of what is published about starting a prop firm is either a sales page or a summary of a sales page. These guides are the opposite: they are the decisions in the order they have to be made, including the ones that are expensive to revisit and the ones that quietly take weeks of waiting on somebody else.
If you only read one, read how to start a prop firm. It covers the whole sequence, from the program document through to the payment and data providers that decide whether you can launch at all.
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The full sequence, and the two decisions that constrain everything after them.
How to start a prop firm
The complete sequence, largest decisions first: program design, risk and payout rules, market data, payment processing, fraud, and what launch readiness actually means.
ReadWho holds risk authority
The single most consequential architecture decision in an evaluation firm — which system is allowed to say what happened, and why disputes trace back to getting it wrong.
ReadThe prop firm technology stack
Every system a funded-trader firm needs, layer by layer, and where stacks usually break once real volume arrives.
ReadChoosing and comparing platforms
For the stage where you are evaluating vendors rather than writing rules.
White-label platform buyer's guide
What a white-label platform includes, where vendors genuinely differ, and the questions that expose the difference.
ReadVendor evaluation matrix
A scoring framework built so a vague answer scores badly rather than passing unnoticed.
ReadPlatform migration guide
Moving an existing firm without losing account history, agreements or payout records — sequence, validation and rollback criteria.
ReadWhat an evaluation platform must do
The obligations a funding evaluation places on a trading platform that a retail front-end never has to meet.
ReadRunning the firm
Risk, payouts, fraud and support once traders are live.
Payout operations
Eligibility, review, fraud checks and the evidence trail behind a decision you may have to explain a year later.
ReadSupport operations
Why trader support is an operational risk surface rather than a cost centre, and what the person answering needs in front of them.
ReadMatching engine architecture
What to require of an execution engine, and how to test the claims rather than take them on trust.
ReadSingle-tenant architecture
Where tenant isolation matters in a prop firm platform, and the failure modes shared infrastructure introduces.
ReadKeep reading
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Platform
One platform connecting the branded trader experience with CRM, risk, fraud prevention, payouts and support so every team works from the same account context.
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Pricing
Nexus Connect is $20 per active trader per month with no minimum. Operations adds a $5,000 platform fee. See what each includes and how billing works.
ReadNext step
Contact
Talk with Nexus about launching, migrating or building a funded-trader platform, and get a scoped view of deployment, integrations and operating support.
ReadBring the guide and your program document.
The most useful first conversation is usually about the rules you have already written, and the two or three questions blocking them.